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- The international nature of cultural studiesPublication . Custódio, Leonardo; Vicente-Mariño, Miguel; García-Jiménez, Leonarda; Hernández-Pérez, Manuel; Subtil, Filipa Mónica de Brito Gonçalves; Rizo, MartaCultural studies is one of the most contested themes in this book in historical, epistemological and sociopolitical ways. Its history is contested. Most authors tend to pinpoint the birthplace of cultural studies at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) after the 1950s in Birmingham. However, some scholars have challenged this “distorted narrative”, as the European chapter in this section describes it. Different voices (e.g. Ang, 1992; Chen, 1992; Wright, 1998; Shome, 2009) have called for the challenging of the narrative of British origins and the decentralization of the Anglo-American cultural studies so that a plural, transnational epistemological process can take place.
- History, debates and main references of cultural studies in EuropePublication . García-Jiménez, Leonarda; Hernández-Pérez, Manuel; Subtil, Filipa Mónica de Brito GonçalvesThis chapter outlines some of the main features that characterize cultural studies in Europe by providing a historical, theoretical, and bibliographical review of their main authors, debates, and texts. In particular, we start by tracing historically the origins of this current of thought situating it at two research centers: the Birmingham School at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) in the United Kingdom and the Centre d’Études de Communications des Masses (CECMAS) in France. To complete this European analysis, we have also considered the Italian, Portuguese and Spanish cases, which we will contrast to the British and French contexts. We then present the debates and theoretical tensions currently characterizing cultural studies in Europe. Finally, we analyze qualitatively some of the key reference texts used to analyze culture and media within Europe. Ultimately, the present text is an invitation to think of what has been carried out so far in order to plan the future challenges that a European culturalist research will have to provide answers to.